Nashville, Tennessee

Dec 12, 2009

We chose Nashville because we wanted to experience the honky tonk life. This was not to be. We made a big mistake. The hostels were over our budget so we booked a hotel which was cheaper. What we didn't know (kind of) was that the hotel was quite far from downtown Nashville. The area we stayed in was pretty dodgy. We were told by a man who worked at the airport to be careful as the area wasn't nice. Even the taxi driver didn't know where it wa...

Las Vegas, Nevada

Dec 9, 2009

VEGAS BABY! That was what Kate and I kept repeating to each other on our journey to sin city. We were very excited and mutually so, sometimes it’s one-sided. Kate and I were especially keyed up because we thought we were going back to sunshine and warmth. What an unpleasant surprise, it was very chilly and I had packed my flip flops in the top of my bag. I was less miffed than I thought I would be because I went last August and the heat wa...

San Francisco, California

Dec 1, 2009

Kate and I had heard nothing but good things about San Fran so we were pretty anxious to see it. It definitely didn’t disappoint. We got a greyhound from Los Angeles to San Fran which took about 8 hours. When we entered San Fran it was dark but it looked really nice all lit up. We stayed at a small but cozy hostel just off Union Square. We were pretty lucky as we didn’t realize how close the hostel was to the centre. The hostel had a kit...

Los Angeles, California

Nov 23, 2009

Hello from Los Angeles...... well we're not actually there anymore but as you may have noticed we have got really behind on the ol' blog. It's going to take a while to catch up but we'll start with LA. We were both pretty excited to get to America- Becky in particular was up every morning asking me when I was getting up to go out...Becky hearts USA! I found it a bit of culture shock for a while after South America. We were a bit nervous abou...

Lima, Peru

Nov 21, 2009

Hello from Lima….. We flew from Cusco to Lima and it was an interesting flight! We were slightly worried about the safety of the plane and it smoked at one point before take off and some parts seemed to move that shouldn’t! Still we made it in one piece! My ears also went funny and they took about 2 days to recover. Arrive in Lima and were picked up by Malka hostel…we thought this was a free pick up but it actually cost us 8 quid- not...